Untamed rewatch notes 6-10
Mar. 7th, 2020 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootYou know, it gets increasingly clear as we go on just how much Lan Xichen does /not/ approve of how Lan Qiren managed to raise his little brother. By the time we get to the "punished for (extremely mild) drunken carousing" he's downright frowning. And then, of course, immediately pitches Wei Wuxian into the bathing pool with Lan Wangji, just to make it abundantly clear what horse he's backing in this race.
And I also note that WWX kind of reflexively tries to take the blame on himself in /any/ situation where he and someone he likes are in trouble. Have to wonder how much of that is so he can reduce the variables before he tries to talk/spin his way out of it.
Also, the black-and-white-pair costume parallels between LWJ and WWX on the one hand and Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan on the other are /extremely unsubtle/. It does nicely draw attention, though, to Lan Wangji's moment of revelation, watching them, which I really read as the first time he realizes that it's /possible/ to be two individuals instead of Jiang's first disciple and the second son of Lan, with the web of obligations that implies. The first tiny shiver of an eventual avalanche.
And I also note that WWX kind of reflexively tries to take the blame on himself in /any/ situation where he and someone he likes are in trouble. Have to wonder how much of that is so he can reduce the variables before he tries to talk/spin his way out of it.
Also, the black-and-white-pair costume parallels between LWJ and WWX on the one hand and Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan on the other are /extremely unsubtle/. It does nicely draw attention, though, to Lan Wangji's moment of revelation, watching them, which I really read as the first time he realizes that it's /possible/ to be two individuals instead of Jiang's first disciple and the second son of Lan, with the web of obligations that implies. The first tiny shiver of an eventual avalanche.
